Of 327 homosexual and bisexual men participating in an ongoing cohort study pertaining to risk factors for HIV infection who completed a survey regarding history of sexual abuse, 116 (35.5%) reported being sexually abused as children. Those abused were more likely to have more lifetime male partners, to report more childhood stress, to have lied in the past in order to have sex, and to have had unprotected receptive anal intercourse in the past 6 months

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9127231/

Well, I think that three MAY be a little young for such a realization or awareness of one's sexuality.

But, you've got me thinking and I remember buying a packet of Spangles, (fruit flavored candy), to help me woo a pretty girl in my class at school when I was six, or at the most seven.

Then the more I poked into the swirling mists of my childhood memories I recalled that I had always found this same girl alluring.

That would have been when I was about four or five.

So you're probably quite accurate in your reckoning.

Then at primary school we used to play this game which we called, ''CATCH AND KISS''.

The idea of chasing a boy didn't even enter my skull, except maybe to give him a kick on the nuts.

So, based on my activities and attraction to those of the opposite sex we must conclude that my sexuality was an integral characteristic of my psyche' from a very early age and no one nor any amount of woke gender-bending gobbledygook would or could change my mind.

Could I have been "groomed" to be anything other than heterosexual?? No!

1)Conjecture. Unless you were groomed, you have no idea how it would affect you. Many gay people don't use the word "groomed" but describe the word "groomed" and typically speak of being sexually abused when describing their childhood. Clearly there is some type of correlation.

2)Often times, the groomed subject winds up "confused" and in therapy for years or decades as an adult, regardless of whether they "stay heterosexual".

It wasn’t until college when I was in therapy that I realized what I had gone through was defined as sexual abuse. I wasn’t raped or groped, but I was groomed. It really messed with my head, left me feeling confused and ashamed, and I had never told a soul.

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.scarymommy.com/groomed-sexual-abuse-teen/amp

How my experience of child grooming still haunts me as an adult

https://www.marieclaire.co.uk/opinion/child-grooming-531126

I'm a survivor of child sexual grooming. It took me 20 years to know it wasn't my fault

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/29/im-a-survivor-of-child-sexual-grooming-it-took-me-20-years-to-know-it-wasnt-my- fault

I always knew since growing up and actually meeting a girl from childhood who confessed she wanted to be with me in a serious relationship when we grew up to be of age. We were about 11 to 14 or so. I am 3 years older than her and I was 14. Ever since in elementary, girls would have crushes on a boy like me and I would have crushes on girls too. It's normal. It is natural within us. Every boy and girl gets confused from emotions, however, that's part of growing up, it's part of puberty. Heterosexuality is what we are born with and we don't discover it until we discover it. Anything else is just a choice that youth makes but that doesn't mean they are excluded from the negative consequences etc.

10 years later till now, she and I have been seeing each other ever since.